Robert Bork, the partisan hack who finished carrying out Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in
1973 (after two other men with actual character resigned rather than
cooperate), helped to make the intellectually bankrupt notion of
Constitutional “originalism” a staple of mainstream conservatism, and
went on to fail to win confirmation to the Supreme Court, has died at the age of 85.
According to leading experts, the 1987 Senate hearings on Bork’s
confirmation marked the crucial point at which modern American political
discourse began to irreversibly go into the shitter. READ MORE »
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